# From jkunz@smcvt.edu Tue Apr 8 12:57:54 1997 Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 21:47:00 -0500 From: jkunz@smcvt.edu To: guitar@nevada.edu Subject: TAB: "Melancholia" by Van Morrison "Melancholia" by Van Morrison Taken from the album "Days Like This" Tabbed by Justin Kunz: jkunz@smcvt.edu Definitely one of Van's best new albums. As one of my friend's Dad said, "You've got to be convinced this is a happy album after listening to the first 10 seconds of it." Throw a capo on the first fret and play these chords, with respect to the capo: A, F#m, A, E Or, since there isn't really a defined guitar sound on the album, play bar chords to give it a light feel: Bb, Gm, Bb, F CHORDS USED: (capo) A- x02220 F#m- 244222 E- 022100 (bar chords) Bb- x13331 Gm- 355333 F- 133211 Here are the lyrics: In the afternoon, baby in my room When the lights are dim way beyond the hill In the afternoon, baby in my room When I'm really down, get me off the ground Melancholia Melancholia Melancholia In the morning time, when I go outside In the morning time it's like that all the while In the afternoon when I'm in my room Every single day, it won't go away Melancholia Melancholia Melancholia And it's in my heart, when we're apart And it stops and starts, and it's in my heart Every single day it's always in my way When I'm making hay, all I've got to say Melancholia Melancholia Melancholia Well it's in my blood and it's in my veins Here it comes again, when I'm in the rain In the wind and rain, well the sun don't shine Well it's always mine, all of the time Melancholia Melancholia Melancholia And it's in my life and it's all the time It doesn't go away when the church bells chime In the evening time, when I drink my wine In the evening time, when it's on my mind Melancholia Melancholia Melancholia It's only melancholia Oh melancholia, Oh melancholia, Oh melancholia, Oh melancholia, Melancholia, melancholia They call it, call it melancholia, call it melancholia, call it melancholia, call it melancholia, Call it melancholia, melancholia, melancholia, melancholia TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK: Justin Kunz, jkunz@smcvt.edu